![]() The stock ownership as set out in the trial court's opinion is undisputed as are the officers and directors enumerated. Hence the dependency on Barnes as a grocery supplier is greater than these percentages would indicate. Substantial items, dollar wise, sold by the retail stores, such as meats, were not handled by Barnes. From these figures it is evident that in 19 Barnes supplied the three retail stores with over 50% of their total purchases of goods and merchandise except for the Corning store in 1965 in which the percentage was 47.3%. The trial court's findings in the reported opinion set forth the gross dollar volume of sales of Barnes and of each of the retail stores and the amount of the sales by Barnes to each store. In the agreement with national Piggly Wiggly it is provided that the "Operator shall be permitted to place on his window in letters substantially smaller the words `Owned and operated by Barnes Grocery Company', or `Barnes Grocery Company Licensee,' inserting his own individual, partnership or corporate name therein." Bowling Stores, Incorporated, hereafter called Bowling, operates a Piggly Wiggly franchised store in Corning, Arkansas. Piggly Wiggly Twin State Distributors, Incorporated, hereafter called Piggly Wiggly, operates two retail groceries under franchise from the national Piggly Wiggly Corporation one is in Poplar Bluff, Missouri and one in Piggott, Arkansas. It sells its other customers, who number approximately 400, at cost plus 8% markup. Barnes sells the defendant's three stores and one other Piggly Wiggly store and a group of approximately seventy stores known as Circle B on the basis of cost plus 3½% of markup. Barnes Grocer Company of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, has since 1933 been engaged in the wholesale grocery business.
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